“I’m really thinking about what Jesus did. What Jesus did on the cross; what Jesus thinks about us,” he said. “How Jesus responds to us; how Jesus responds to our sin; how Jesus responds to sinners.”
The tricky thing about art is that it’s open to interpretation, Wells added. “I didn’t write a song thinking I was writing a Scripture,” he said, adding that the song is “not authoritative. It’s creative. It’s artistic. It’s an expression of a truth, not the truth.”
Wells added that he would “rather be guilty of talking about how ridiculously in love Jesus is with people and letting the kindness of God draw people to repentance as the Scripture says he does” than the alternative.
